CultureStrike Managing Editor

CultureStrike

CultureStrike Managing Editor

The CULTURESTRIKE MANAGING EDITOR will build the CultureStrike website into a cutting edge online magazine at the intersection of arts and activism. The Managing Editor will work at the Asian American Writers' Workshop office in NY, three days a week. Salary dependent on experience. You will:

Pitch, write, assign, curate, and edit writing and art concerning the literary, political, and pop cultural life of immigrant America. Check out our developing site to get a sense of the topics and styles we've begun to cover, but these do not by any means exhaust the possibilities. Note that this is not a news outlet, though it will have political analysis. We will feature novelists, poets, essayists, critics, visual artists, musicians, avant-gardists, and organizers. We want to provide an alternative cultural response to the anti-immigrant crackdown. We want to be the BOMB or Cabinet or n+1 of immigration coverage.

Place content in prominent publications as part of our op-ed strategy to raise awareness on immigration.

ABOUT CULTURESTRIKE

CultureStrike is an artist-led initiative whose mission is to cultivate innovative collaborations between artists, writers, performers and other cultural workers to shift the national imagination on immigration. CultureStrike seeks to support a cultural movement for immigration justice. In 2010, we enlisted Salman Rushdie, Junot Diaz, Sandra Cisneros, Naomi Klein and 300 other writers to boycott Arizona after the state passed the anti-immigrant law SB1070. In 2011, we brought 50 writers and artists to the Arizona-Mexico border, including Teju Cole, Daniel Alarcón, Wangechi Mutu, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Tania Bruguera. We're now building a national countercultural magazine of writers and artists responding to immigration politics. We have writing and art from Mike Davis, Jessica Hagedorn, Favianna Rodriguez, Wafaa Bilal and others--all we're missing is a great editor to build the capacity of the project. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds. Please see culturestrike.net[1] to see our website.